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Re: Dying hard drive?



On 19/10/13 11:36, Veljko wrote:
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 07:31:55PM +0200, Andre Majorel wrote:
This is highly manufacturer dependent. In my experience, with
Seagate drives, it's normal to have Raw_Read_Error_Rate in the
tens or hundreds of millions.

Thanks for pointing this out. It does throws some light on big numbers I have
on all four drives.

Regards,
Veljko


On an ubuntu list (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2157352>
I found a link to this explanation:
<http://forums.seagate.com/t5/Desktop-HDD-Desktop-SSHD/Seagate-s-Seek-Error-Rate-Raw-Read-Error-Rate-and-Hardware-ECC/td-p/122382>

"(...) Seagate calculates and applies [the SMART] attribute values in a counterintuitive way. (...)"

Indeed, one of my own Seagate disks reports Head_Flying_Hours of
231795090009925, which are 2.65x10^10 years :-)

--
Klaus


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